Jan. 15, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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thing, but the prospects are good for a good 

 crop of honey next season, if the winter is not 

 bad on while clover. The fields are well 

 covered with it. S. A. Palmer. 



Henry Co., Ohio, Dec. "24. 



A Poop Honey Year. 



We had a poor year here, although the fall 

 was beautiful. No cold weather until to-day. 

 The few bee-men 1 know say the nights were 

 too cool and dews too heavy for bees to gather 

 much honey. Those who had combs already 

 built, and extracted what was brought in, got 

 a moderate amount. I tried for comb honey, 

 and had no combs built, so got very little. 



P. T. Lbma.ster. 



Spartanburg Co., S. C, Dec. '26. 



Osmosis and Atavism. 



I wish you would get some of your con- 

 tributors to write an article on Osmosis, and 

 so shut off reference to the *' umbilical cord " 

 in bees. It is a very interesting study, and I 

 should enjoy seeing it followed. 



I note Cheshire declines to consider the 

 legs which appear for so short a time on the 

 larva as referable to atavism. Can you tell 

 me what theory is accepted ; (See Cheshire, 

 Vol. 1, page 340.) 



By the way, 1 have a very simple plan for 

 amateur introduction of queens which I have 

 found useful. Shall I send you a sketch ; 

 George W. Adams. 



Essex Co., Mass., Dec. 2ti. 



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Y'es, we will be glad to publish your method 

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A Surprising Season— Feeding Bees. 



Last season was one of surprises all through. 

 It began with a fair promise of another 

 drouth equal to the previous year, or, even 

 worse; but May 3 we were surprised with the 

 heaviest rain that had visited us for about two 

 years, and the rains kept right on surprising 

 us once or twice a week all through the sea- 

 son. September 13, Jack Frost surprised 

 about GO percent of the corn before it was 

 ready for it, and killed what honey-producing 

 flowers remained, cutting off as nice a flow of 

 honey as I ever knew at any time of the year. 



I started the season with 21 colonies, very 

 light in stores; I fed them right along until 

 well into June, when they were able to care 

 for themselves. The first two weeks of July 

 they stored about 200 pounds of white clover, 

 partly basswood, in the sections, and did con- 

 siderable swarming. Then the honey-flow 

 stopped— I supposed for good, on account of 

 the wet weather, but from August 21 to Sep- 

 tember 10 the bees surprised me by storing a 

 good 1000 pounds of honey in the sections, 

 besides all of them laid in plenty of stores in 

 the brood-chamber for winter. My "round 

 up'' for the season is 1200 pounds of honey, 

 and an increase to 32 colonies, all strong in 

 bees, and heavy with winter stores. 



I lay the strength of the colonies to the 

 feeding in the first part of the season, which I 

 did in this way : 



I secured a lot of empty fruit-cans, from 

 half a pint to a quart capacitj' each; filled 

 them with granulated-sugar syrup, placed a 

 thick cloth over the top. and a small piece of 

 board over that, then turned the whole bot- 

 tom up on boards laid over barrels on the 

 opposite side of my shop from the apiary, so 

 the bees could lly over or around the shop to 

 get at the feed. There being no other bees 

 kept nearer than two miles as the bee flies, 

 I had no trouble with neighbors' bees, and, I 

 will add, not a single case of robbing, as I 

 have had when trying to feed inside the hives; 

 and not a colony injured by wax- worms this 

 season. 



While this method of feeding is not "ac- 

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 cessful, and perfectly satisfactory with me. I 

 made the syrup quite thin, so the bees could 

 suck it out through a cloth. Of course, I re- 

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 was not suital-ile for the bees to fly. 



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